I like to code and lift weights. I am a full-time Software Engineer for the movie business as well as a freelance coder, and part-time landlord. Received my BS in Computer Science, MBA, MS in Computer Science, and MS in Software Engineering. I spent a few years in the military then working as a contractor overseas which eventually brought me back to the states.

This is by far the smoothest, most compact color picker I have found

Looking for a new color picker today, and I cam across this beauty! The 'Farbtastic' color picker... what a name! It requires jQuery, but is easily the best of it's kind I have ever found. It is extremely easy to implement and looks/works great (I really like the fact that it is mroe compact than most).

I just finished making a style customizer for one of our intranet applications that uses this to re-write our css and hence change the theme based on the user input. This tool was super easy to work with and cut my development time down by a huge margin. I can't say enough about this plugin! Hopefully I can get a post up about the online css customizer pretty soon.

Just what you would think, a resource for open source web design...

I am a graphical Neanderthal, this simple tool helps me make fancy 'glass' buttons - easy to slice and use for sliding doors as well

Pretty much explains itself, this site makes glassy buttons easy, just provide the colors and dimensions (text if you want) and you are done. This is a nice tool to use as you can just make one image without text and slice the end off for use with sliding doors - that way you don't have to make 500 images for your site, just a few depending on verticle sizes/colors. The tool also provides you with rollover changes, pretty slick. The downloadable .zip includes .png, .jpg and .gif files.

A free utility for making professional auction ads for use on sites such as eBay - Very simple to use and great looking html and css final product

Decided to make this a while back because I sell a sorts of stuff on eBay and I got tired of writing html for each and every ad. Once I came up with the concept, I figured why not allow other people to use it for free?

It has gone through a couple iterations; changed from ColdFusion to asp.net, and is constanty being updated and improved.

This is an incredibly useful site to those of us with no sense of color whatosever; no need to actually understand color theory, just use this useful app to do the work for you - this site's color scheme was made using Color Blender